Match book



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7 v INVENTOR AARON. FISCHER ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 8, 1942 MATCH BOOK Aaron Fischer, St. Louis County, Mo., assignor, by

mesne assignments, to Universal Match Corporation, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application February 26, 1940, Serial No. 320,810

,1 Claim.

This invention relates generally to matchpackages. More particularly, this invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in match-packages of match-book type and has for its object, and principally resides in, the provision, as a new article of manufacture, of a match-book having a metallized cover equipped.

with a match-igniting or striking surface,

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a matchbook embodying the present invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the match-book, taken approximately on the line 22, Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the coverblank;

Figure 4 is a similar view of the cover-blank with an end-portion thereof doubled flatwise upon itself in the provision of a flap for receiving the striking or splint-igniting member of the book; and

Figure 5 is a similar view of the cover-blank equipped with a striking or splint-igniting member and now ready for incorporation in a matchbook.

Referring now in more detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, A designates an oblong rectangular section of relatively light-weight readily bendable or flexible cardboard suitable for use and incorporation as the cover of a match-book.

Such section A is preferably, as it may be said, of laminated formation and comprises a strip I of usual or common cardboard stock having upon one face a film or lining of tin, silver, aluminum, or other suitable preferably bright metallic material, or, as I may say, having one face suitably throughout brightly metallized, as at 2, such metallizing preferably being effected by adhesively applying a coating, film, or layer of the metallizing material 2 upon and throughout one face of the strip l.

The strip A is now at its metallized face 2 doubled upon itself, as at 3, adjacent one end and thereby provided with a flap 4 of double thickness having an outwardly presented or exposed plain-stock face, upon which face the cover-flap 4 is now adhesively or otherwise permanently provided with a transfer layer of any suitable friction, striking, or splint-igniting material B. 1

According now to the practice of numerous match-book factories or plants, the strip A is again doubled upon itself, as at 5, adjacent its flap 4 and thereby further provided with what may be described as a seat or compartment for accommodating the connecting-bases 6 of the usual match-splints C. By means then of a suitable staple or the like I passed through the cover-flap 4, the match-splint bases 6, and the now rear or back portion a of the cover-section A, the flap 4, splints C, and cover-section A are securely fastened permanently together in standard match-book formation, the section A at its free portion being now folded forwardly, as at 8, over the match-splints C and then downwardly for providing the usual front closure-flap 9 for the book.

The metallized cover-section A functions somewhat in the nature of a fire preventive. At the same time, the book, by reason of its outwardly match-book may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

As a new article of manufacture, a matchbook including a cover constructed of an elon gated rectangular material-section having opposed plain and metallized faces doubled, upon itself intermediate its ends to comprise first and second oppositely disposed end-flaps and an intermediate match-splint seat, match-splints having their base disposed in said seat, the first flap being foldable enclosingly over the splints with its metallized face outwardly presented and the second flap being again folded upon itself to comprise an inner fold and an overlying outer fold, means engaging the folds of the second flap, the seated splints, and the first flap for securing the splints and cover together with the free end of the first flap adapted for endwise disposition intermediate the splints and the inner fold of the second flap and with the plain face of the outer fold of the second flap outwardly presented,

the free end of said outer fold of the second flap 

